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[–] GregorGizeh 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

i have a very sensitive nose, and let me tell you i have not met a single person who says of themselves they don't smell and actually don't, they absolutely do. We are just used to our own and dont register it unless it gets intense.

I'm not saying you should bathe in perfume or obsessively rinse your scalp with bleach, just that if people go several days without using soap on themselves I 100% always smell them. For hair it isn't much different.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

are you talking about scented or scentless soap? You're probably just smelling the soap itself.

There is also a difference between "smells just a tinge bit stinky" and "i can smell you from here dog" if it's the former it probably doesn't make the cut as "stank"

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I have a very sensitive nose too, described as that of a dog by my sister, and it's not that people not using shampoo smell worse, it's that they smell of sebum and pheromones and all that stuff, which I don't mind. I smell more like an animal, and I love animals.

A few years ago I had to stay inside a lot, so I tried showering without soap on my body too, and it does seem to work better for longer than using soap, but it's less convenient and sort of less reliable I find, so I use soap again on the three key areas. My hair though, I just use water to wash. My girlfriend tried to argue with me once that I needed shampoo and she just looked it up briefly and said "I was wrong!"